POLAND: Death in Katyn Forest

Millions of Poles were killed by the Nazis
during World War II, and every night, candles burn in memorial along
the streets of Warsaw. But the most shocking atrocity of allthe
murder of at least 4,500 Polish army officers in the Katyn Forest near
the Russian city of Smolensk in 1940is the one that Poles are
forbidden to commemorate. Reason: the Soviets have long been suspected
of doing the shooting.

The Russians have persistently claimed that the Germans were
responsible. Last week, in accord with the British practice of making
official records public after 30 years, a secret report from...